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By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff Twenty-four new cases were reported Sunday in Maine amid a statewide surge in virus transmission.

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By Charles Eichacker, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine’s spike in COVID-19 cases is likely to continue for the foreseeable future, the state’s top public health official said Thursday as the state recorded the second day in a row of record-setting numbers of new cases that have followed weeks of increasing virus cases.

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By Aislinn Sarnacki, Bangor Daily News Staff If there’s one thing that deer ticks don’t like, it’s dry weather, and this year, Maine has had plenty of it.

By Charles Eichacker, Bangor Daily News Staff The coronavirus is again spiking in Maine as it did at the height of the pandemic in the spring, breaking a one-day record with 87 new cases on Wednesday and raising increasing alarm among state officials.

By Lori Valigra, Bangor Daily News Staff After the largest single-day spike of new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, Gov.

By Lynne Fort, Bangor Daily News Staff Piscataquis, Sagadahoc and Somerset counties have been declared primary natural disaster areas by Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue due to the ongoing drought.

By Caitlin Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff The wife of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden made a character-based argument for his campaign in Bangor on Tuesday in the last week of a spirited campaign with President Donald Trump in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Piscataquis County residents are eligible to vote in the annual Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors election.

By Jessica Piper, Bangor Daily News Staff Donald Trump Jr.

By Eesha Pendharkar, Bangor Daily News Staff Since Maine schools reopened for the fall, students and staff have had to wear face coverings throughout the day, keep their distance from others, wash their hands frequently and often stick with the same, small group throughout the school day to reduce the risk of the coronavirus spreading.

By Eesha Pendharkar, Bangor Daily News Staff Three of Maine’s top Democrats greeted President Donald Trump with sharp criticism for his last-minute visit to the Bangor area on Sunday, with Gov.

By Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff LEVANT — President Donald Trump descended on an apple orchard Sunday in a pitch to 2nd Congressional District voters touting his June action to allow fishing in a national marine monument southeast of Cape Cod where few, if any, Maine fishermen fish.